If you count cultists, allied Traitor Guard and daemon hordes then yes, the IW are quickly outstripped. In terms of actual Marines and equipment the IW are far better off.
Anyone know any fluff on Iron warriors
Id like to know some stuff about about them like they are masters of seige,but any other things?
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well from what i can guess from the fluff of black legion and word bearers both have large numbers of marines, perhaps even more then the iron warriors themselves, what makes up the number for the iron warriors might is the amount of indentured soilders and slaves and yes more siege engines then any other legion,
I don't know if the Word Bearers really have the same amount of number as they did before the heresy. In Dark Creed they lost an incredible amount of geneseed without extracting it. And they have been more involved with the Crusades as they will be more than the Iron Warriors. In fact in the current Black Crusade, they basically tolled out. So it would be interesting to know how much the Word Bearers have lost.
In terms of Chaos Space Marines the Black Legion is the largest and most powerful Legion many times over, the Word Bearers are a large Legion (though obviously not as large as at pre-Heresy times) and the BL outnumber them 10:1.If you count cultists, allied Traitor Guard and daemon hordes then yes, the IW are quickly outstripped. In terms of actual Marines and equipment the IW are far better off.
dont forgot tho that the word bearers have alot of hosts, each one is fairly large so the word bearers prob have more then we know about through the fluffI don't know if the Word Bearers really have the same amount of number as they did before the heresy. In Dark Creed they lost an incredible amount of geneseed without extracting it. And they have been more involved with the Crusades as they will be more than the Iron Warriors. In fact in the current Black Crusade, they basically tolled out. So it would be interesting to know how much the Word Bearers have lost.
One thing I'd like to point out... If I recall correctly, more than the other legions, the Iron Warriors make use of titans. Warlord Titans. The one in Storm of Iron is described as having spires and bastions on its shoulders. Not just ramparts, bastions. Fortified towers and bunkers, possibly each shoulder holding a city block of war structures. What I'm getting at here is that, most of the other legions don't even have access to these ancient war machines, but in Dead Sun Black Sky, the Iron Warriors (opposing factions) are fighting each other with not just artillery and such, but massive warlord (I believe) titans that are... not lobbing bombs at each other... not sniping each other. No, they're punching each other in the face. The Adeptus Mechanicus would consider pitting a warlord titan into close combat to be a terrible waste of resources, as would the dark mechanicus pledged to Chaos. I have not heard of any other legion having the disposable resources to hurl warlords at each other. So, in short, it should be considered that, if Perturabo ever came out of his impregnable fortress, and united the Iron Warriors, they'd be a force to reckon with, regardless of which Chaos legion has the most marines, cultists or indentured soldiers.
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